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Court of Ambition

· Enchantment · Commander Legends (CMR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

205

Decks Running

117

In Decks

788

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Court of Ambition

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, you become the monarch. At the beginning of your upkeep, each opponent loses 3 life unless they discard a card. If you're the monarch, instead each opponent loses 6 life unless they discard two cards.

Commander Legends (CMR) · Rare · Illustrated by Ravenna Tran

Final zone distribution

54 instances

1.9%

Library

42.6%

Battlefield

25.9%

Graveyard

1.9%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Obeka, Splitter of Seconds 24 decks
2 Queen Marchesa 15 decks
3 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern 9 decks
4 Davros, Dalek Creator 5 decks
5 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin 5 decks
6 Abaddon the Despoiler 4 decks
7 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 3 decks
8 Rakdos, Lord of Riots 3 decks
9 Tinybones, Bauble Burglar 3 decks
10 Tinybones, Trinket Thief 3 decks

The "good card" funnel

205 brought · 114 players

Brought to game

205

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 72% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -10.4pp

Players who cast this card win 27% of the time (n=29) , vs 22% when it never left the library (n=134).

Observed gap +5.5pp; 95% confidence interval -10.4pp to +21.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=32

19%

63%

T6-9

13%

T10+

Median 6.5 P25 6 · P75 8 · max 13

On curve 22% (6 / 32 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 35%

32 of 100 times cast 32%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.